A project curated by American artist Oscar Tuazon, which explores water as a metaphor, as an element that resists any attempt at shaping, and as an essential medium for artists: a pure mirror.
Something in the Water marks a new chapter in Oscar Tuazon's ongoing Water School project. Published on the occasion of the eponymous 2025 exhibition curated by the artist at MAXXI in Rome, the book serves as both a companion to and an extension of the exhibition.
Bringing together the work of fifteen artists who engage with water as a living material and an artistic medium, the publication explores the elemental faculty of water through a poetic lens. The language of water is poetry, and Tuazon uses this publication as an occasion to present reflections on water from poets throughout the twentieth century as well as new poems from Eileen Myles, Lisa Robertson, and Cedar Sigo.
Edited by Oscar Tuazon
Texts by Francesco Stocchi,
Elena Motisi, Oscar Tuazon; contributions by Robert Creeley,
June Jordan, Jonas Mekas,
Eileen Myles, Lisa Robertson,
Maya Salameh, Cedar Sigo.
Graphic design: Dorothée Perret.
